At Instamobile, we’re building a ton of complex features to save time and energy for React Native developers across the world. One of these complex features is the chat functionality, which is a must have in almost all mobile apps nowadays. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add a React Native Chat into any mobile app with only a few lines of code. And yes, we are talking about a fully fledged chat function, that comes integrated with backend (database & storage) and that is real-time. And it can be integrated into any React Native app with no effort!

It’s nearly impossible to build a mobile app these days without needing to access your users’ location in order to improve the user experience tremendously. In this article, we will be looking at how to get user location in React Native, without having your app crash.

In today’s world, with massive production of mobile application and websites, designing and building mobile interfaces and user experiences have been a growing trend. The ability to produce prototype designs rapidly has been an intriguing topic. At Instamobile, we build beautiful React Native templates to help designers and developers create their mobile apps more quickly. Let’s take a look at the best mobile app design tools that mobile designers and developers can use to produce high-quality prototypes.

We’ve recently launched a free React Native Starter Kit, and I thought it’d be a good idea to document the entire process of designing a react native starter app, from inception to the final product. Hopefully, this can help people looking to create a mobile app and have no idea how to start and what the product design process looks like.

Interested in learning React Native? Let’s build your first React Native app, a simple mobile app displaying a list of countries, fetched from a REST API with a network request. This React Native tutorial is aimed at introducing React Native, giving you the basis of what you need to know before building a real React Native application. After that, we proceed to helping you build your first real React Native app. By the end of this article you will build a React Native app that can run on both iOS and Android devices.

React Native is a framework for building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. There are lots of materials with which to learn React Native and in this article I will show the best 10 resources to learn React Native development. For each learning material I will talk about the entry behavior, time to complete, content and difficulty level.

Giphy is the largest library providing one of the most popular forms of media widely used for chatting – GIFs or Graphics Interchange Format and stickers. The most popular social media apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Slack, Skype and Twitter (to mention a few) use Giphy’s technology to provide GIF content and Stickers for their chat users to improve the chatting experience. At Instamobile, we’ve added Giphy integration into all of our chat apps, so we’re going to describe our experience of integrating the Giphy API into any React Native app.

Redux is a popular React and React Native state management library, meant to be used in complex React and React Native apps where sharing state between multi-level components can get extremely difficult to manage. In this article we are going to learn how to use Redux with React Hooks by building a real React Native app.

Are you a mobile App developer? Do you work in a team along with Web developers? Does your app depend on APIs provided by the Web team? Have you ever faced issues with unavailability of APIs to develop or test a certain feature in your app? If your answer for all the above questions was yes, then this article is for you.

In this article, we are introducing a new tool from Google which allows us to distribute mobile apps to other people, before they are published to the App Store or Play Store. This has been a challenging problem, especially for iOS. Fortunately, Firebase App Distribution tool from Firebase, makes the process of distributing mobile apps to testers, developers or colleagues frictionless.